Royal Nebeker

Royal Gay Nebeker (February 22, 1945 – September 6, 2014) was an American painter and print maker born in San Francisco whose prints and paintings have been shown widely in Europe and North America including in Art Paris at the Louvre, Gallery Steen in Oslo and the Lisa Harris Gallery in Seattle. His formal education in art included a Masters Diploma from the National School of Arts & Crafts in Oslo, an M.F.A. from Brigham Young University, and a sabbatical taking into consideration Japanese printmaker Yashi Ishibashi and papermaker Naoaki Sakamoto. Nebeker was associates with Gary Snyder and Robert Redford. His art has been collected by IBM, the National Gallery of Art in Krakow, Poland, the U.C.L.A. print deposit and the Seattle Art Museum, among others.

Nebeker's mother emigrated from Norway where Nebeker eventually traveled as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While there he studied at the National School of Arts & Crafts in Oslo where he felt the have an effect on of Edvard Munch. In 1972, Nebeker acknowledged a come to to sentient and play a part in Munch's Ekley Studio. Aside from merged residencies and Elongated travel to Europe and Asia, from 1974 until his death in 2014, he lived in Gearhart, Oregon, and painted in a studio upon pilings on height of the Columbia River called The Uppertown Net Loft. He stated that Astoria reminded him of Norway.

During The Great Coastal Gale of 2007, the upper floor of the studio was blown off, and Nebeker directionless two years worth of his paintings. He and a friend, who broke his arm later than the building floating its top, were trapped there for twenty hours along with 160-miles-per-hour winds. They finally escaped by lashing themselves to a ladder and crawling to safety.

Nebeker's paintings count dream-like images (often collaged taking into account posters and handbills from his travels), and quotes from: Kierkegaard, songs, scripture, and Ibsen, among others. His painting themes count pairings of a man and a woman, dream depictions, memories of childhood, bicycles, and boats. Iconic figures with George Washington often appear. There is also frequent depiction of a woman called Blinky in a 19th-century polka dotted bathing dress. According to the art critic Richard V. West, she is both an avatar of Nebeker's wife Sarah and an invasion of the affect of Paul Gavarni.

Nebeker kept a drive journal, a source for some of his work. There is a certain influence from expressionism, but Nebeker is less cynical and more humorous in the treatment of his subjects. In his self portraits, he sometimes portrayed himself as a woman. Asked why he often painted words and phrases in Japanese and Norwegian on his work, Nebeker responded, "I don't past the showing off English looks, it is in view of that blatant. It is too easy to accept literally, too simple to look what it means. I don't intentionally obscure meaning, but I distrust clarity." The last of his painted be in often exceeded six foot dimensions. The painting "When We Awaken" at 142 by 104 inches was initially smaller, but Nebeker felt the two figures rising from a tomb needed more broadcast above them and bonus a canvas on top which mostly holds more sky.

Nebeker's smaller tainted media watercolors often depict flowers in vases. He was challenged to pursue this do something by Horst Janssen next they met in the 1970s.

He is the dad of Israel Nebeker, lead singer of the band Blind Pilot.